Labels: Sides Of Unequal Length
Review by: Kunal Nandi
Sides Of Unequal Length (or S.O.U.L. for those whose time is precious) is the tape label offshoot of Victory Garden Records, who are (marginally) famous for putting stuff out by Trencher, Southall Riot and Stanton. They are a genteel, oddball British institution, and should have parades in their honour. This tape will probably set you back about two and a half quid. Nothing costs that anymore!
Anyway… I have no idea who Eagle Piss are, or from which 4-track equipped bedroom they crawled out from, but I am totally digging this tape man! Coming on like an extremely lo-fi version of Earth’s ‘2’ album, they remind me of the type of music I used to listen to and read a lot about in the mid 90s. Stuff like Flying Saucer Attack, The Azusa Plane, Roy Montgomery maybe – home-recorded, droning and atmospheric, with a warm, fuzzy, enveloping sound, due perhaps to all that endearing tape crackle and hiss. Side B takes the rather less interesting approach of a simple tune plucked haphazardly from an acoustic, but the soothing drones are thankfully ever present. This is cute!